Target Student Performance
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Activity |
Target Performance |
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Lesson 2 – Finding Patterns in Large Scale Data (students as investigators) |
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Activity 2.1: Home Groups: Four Considerations for Large Scale Data (45 min) |
Students in home groups express initial ideas about patterns and changes over time for four variables in Earth systems: global temperatures, global sea levels, Arctic sea ice, and atmospheric CO2 concentrations. |
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Activity 2.2: Expert Groups: Analysis of Large-Scale Data (45 min) |
Students in expert groups investigate multiple representations of the four variables in and the Earth systems that they measure, generating explanations and questions. |
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Activity 2.3: Home Groups: Share Expertise (60 min) |
Students return to home groups and share their expertise about patterns of change for four variables in Earth systems: global temperatures, global sea levels, Arctic sea ice, and atmospheric CO2 concentrations. |
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Activity 2.4: Evidence-Based Argument for Earth Systems (30 min) |
Students compare patterns of change for the four Earth systems variables and record questions about what causes the patterns and how the patterns are related to one another. |
NGSS Performance Expectations
High School
- Earth’s Systems. HS-ESS2-2. Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to Earth’s surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other Earth systems.
- Earth’s Systems. HS-ESS2-2. Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to Earth’s surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other Earth systems.
- Weather and Climate. HS-ESS2-4. Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth’s systems result in changes in climate.
- Earth’s Systems. HS-ESS2-6. Develop a quantitative model to describe the cycling of carbon among the hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
- Earth and Human Activity. HS-ESS3-5. Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth systems.
- Earth and Human Activity. HS-ESS3-6. Use a computational representation to illustrate the relationships among Earth systems and how those relationships are being modified due to human activity.
Middle School
- Earth and Human Activity. MS-ESS3-5. Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.